So today we are going to be looking at two interesting combos for drafting wild-sapphire, starting with my favorite common bomb:
A minor socket 4/4 for 5 resources makes Boulder Brute one of the more efficient socketed cards in the game. Generally I see a lot of people use the sapphire flight gem with this guy, and a 4/4 flying troop is definitely good to have. But we can do better, shove the wild spellshield gem on him and use Feather Drifting Downriver's charge power and now you have a 4/4 flyer that wont have to worry about those nasty removal cards. Then it is just a matter of buffing him with cards such as Wild Aura and you can swing each turn for 6 or hold him back to have a powerful blocker. The best thing about this card is that it is common, so drafting him can be very easy. Even with a solid combo like this sadly wild-sapphire in draft does have a serious weakness, its lack of hard removal.
Yes, yes, you have Countermagic and a lot of bounce effects such as Buccaneer and Time Ripple that can slow your opponent but sometimes it can be hard to draft these due to their high pick priority (how quickly they are taken by a player). The solution that I have found works really well is to use:
At first glance Turbulence can only help you against flying troops, and don't get me wrong there is a lot of instances where the card by itself is going to stop you from dieing. But it wont help you if their bomb does not have flight. This is where Feather Drifting Downriver's charge power is going to help us out again! Why? Because you can target your opponent's troops giving them flight. Target their biggest threat, make it have flight, then Turbulence it straight to the discard. This is slightly harder to pull off in draft due to Turbulence being a uncommon, but it is achievable.
Anyway that is it for now, back to my dull studious drudge.
Can you think of any other combos with Boulder Brute or Turbulence? Let me know in the comments!
